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UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

EMERY ALEXANDER HASTEN, OF HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO R. C. MAXWELL, OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO STICK OR HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,124,dated March 1, 1892. Application filed October 15, 1891. Serial No. 408,830. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern: a staple a, and is also secured to said stick Be it known that I, EMERY ALEXANDER adjaeent to the point where it mergesinto the IIASTEN, a citizen of the United States, residbranches B by a staple b, which is disposed ing at High Point, in the couuty of Guilford at right angles to the staple a. 5 and State of North Oarolina` have invented By the provision of the loop C and the pecertain new and useful Improvements in Toculiar arrangement of the staples a and b, as

- bacco Sticks or Hangers; and I do hereby dedeseribed,it will be readilyperceived that the clare the following to be a full,*clear, and exbranches B will be connected to the stick in act description of the invention, such as will a rigid and secure mannerand will be elfecturo enable others skilled in the art to which it apally prevented from working loose in operapertains to make and use the same. tion. My invention relates to an improved stick Fron the foregoing description, taken in or hanger forsupporting tobacco-leaveswhile conjunction with the drawings annexed, it the same are being cured; and its noveltywill will be seen that I have provided a tobacco- 15 be fully understood from the following dehanger of an exceedingly cheap, simple, and scription and claim', when taken in conj unedurable construction enbodying a peculiar tion with the accompanying drawings, in arrangement of parts, Whereby, while it is* whichadapted to support as many leaves as the or- Figure 1 is a plan View of my inpro ved stick dinary hanger, it will take up much less space, 20 or hanger; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a by reason of which it will be seen that more series of my improved hangers arranged one of myimproved hangers may be placed in the above the other, each npon three tier-poles. samespace than the ordinaryhangers in which Referring by letter to the said drawings,A the branches extend at right angles to the indicates the stick proper or cross-bar of my stick. 2 5' improved hanger, which is preferably of rect- Having' thus described my invention,what

angular formin cross-section and is snpported I olain, and desire to secure by Letters Patin praetice in a horizontal position upon the ent,-is- A ordinarytier-poles or in asuitablefrane with- In a tobacco-hanger substantially as dein the curing-barn. scribed, the combination, with the stick or 30 B indicates thehorizontal laterally-extendcross-bar, of a series of projecting metallic ing branches of my improved hanger, which arms each formed from a single piece and exare arranged in pairs at suitable intervals in tendiug from opposite sides of the stick, the the length of the stick A and are pitched in loop formed integrally at the center and disa corresponding direction with respect to the posed longitudinally with respect to the stick, 3 5 longitudinal direction of said stick, by reason the staple a, securing the end of said loop to of which arragcment it Will be seen that the the stick, and the staple b, arranged at right said branches will take up less space at the augles to the staple a and secnring the loop sides of the stick than branches which extend to thestick at a point adjacent to where said at right angles thereto, which is an important loop merges into the branches, all snbstan- 40 advantage. The respective pairs of branches, tially as and for the purpose set forth.`.

which extend in opposite directions from the In testimony whereof I affix .ny signaturein stick A in the manner described, are formed presence of two witnesses.

from a single piece of Wire or the like, which EMERY ALEXANDER HASTEN. is bent at its middle to form the loop O,which Witnesses: 45 is disposed longitudinally with respect to the R. O. MAXWELL,

stick A and is secured thereto at its ends by G. M. STANFORD. 

